Visual Style Builder and DockingManager

[Antony]

Hi there,

I've been trying this for a couple of days without much success, when using the Visual Style Builder is it possible to alter the tab colours (and shape!) used by the DockingManager docking component?

At the moment I am trying to style the DockPresenterControl but when I select the individual Tabs and make changes (background color or border color for example) these changes are never reflected in the Design / Preview area.

If it is not possible with the Visual Style Builder is it possible to make these changes programatically?

Thanks very much!

-Antony

[Julian Benkov]

Hello Antony,

The problem may be related to the Preview the DockPresenterControl in Visual Style Builder. Please save your changed theme from the VSB and try to load it in the docking manager. To change the colors for the fill and border primitives programatically your can use:

RadElementCollection coll = this.dockPanel1.DockableTab.Children;
FillPrimitive fill = coll[0] as FillPrimitive;
fill.BackColor = Color.GreenYellow;
BorderPrimitive border = coll[1] as BorderPrimitive;
border.ForeColor = Color.Red;

 
Sincerely yours,
Julian Benkov
the Telerik team

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[Antony]

Thanks Julian you actually got in just before I was about to reply! What I did in the end was use VSB to create a theme for the RadTabStrip and then apply this theme to the docking manager, it seemed to work a treat :)

Thanks again!

-Antony